The second and final day of The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications began with a very interesting session led by Ricardo Siu of of the University of Macau about whether or not gaming markets are a productive economic sector in the purely economic sense of that word: namely, are they …

Try Talking

Burke, we were at the same small conference for two days. I introduced myself to you, and but you only made small talk. There were plenty of opportunities to talk at length - did you even consider actually talking to me about this stuff? We could have discussed the field data on manipulation, the observed relation between liquidity and accuracy, the relevance or irrelevance of my family history, and much more. Perhaps you felt that would interfere with your painting such a wild picture?